From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261583AbVG2AOH (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:14:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262171AbVG2AOH (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:14:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:26066 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261583AbVG2AOF (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:14:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:12:51 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: george@mvista.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] NMI watch dog notify patch Message-Id: <20050728171251.78a535a7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <42E97133.8060307@mvista.com> References: <42E940BE.3020908@mvista.com> <20050728161341.15bf9625.akpm@osdl.org> <42E97133.8060307@mvista.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org George Anzinger wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > George Anzinger wrote: > > > >> This patch adds a notify to the nmi watchdog to notify that > >> the system is about to be taken down by the watchdog. If the > >> notify is handled with a NOTIFY_STOP return, the system is > >> given a new lease on life. > > > > > > It looks sensible, but as there aren't actually any in-kernel uses for this > > I'd have thought it would be better for it to live out-of-tree? > > I should just bundle it with the kgdb patch then? I spose so, for now. If kdb and/or nlkd could benefit from it then it might simplify life to merge it into mainline. Perhaps you could ping Keith Owens and clyde.griffin@novell.com?